1914
Edition Size: 75
Image Size: 40.1 x 49.8 cm
Sheet Size: 47 x 56.5 cm
Reference: Schapire H 165
Signed
Condition: Pristine
On laid Van Gelder laid paper. One of 75 copies. Signed lower right.
Published in the portfolio “12 Woodcuts”, Berlin 1919, I. B. Neumann.
Item Id. 75243
€22,000.00
German painter and printmaker Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was born in Rottluff, now known as Chemnitz in December 1884 and was famed for his expressionist landscapes and nudes. He started his academic life by studying architecture, but, after meeting some other artists (Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl), he became one of the founders of expressionist art group Die Brücke (The Bridge). He served in the army 1915-1918, moving afterwards to Berlin, where he met his wife, Emy Frisch and settled for the remainder of his life.
